Тональность: D major
Verse 1
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C
D
It was the third of June,
another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my
brother was balin' hay
G
And at dinner time we stopped and walked
back to the house to eat
D
And Mama hollered out the back door,
C
D
"Y'all remember to wipe your feet
C
D
G
And then she said,
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G
"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
D
C
Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off
the Tallahatchie Bridge."
D
Ebdim
D
Verse 2
And Papa said to Mama as he passed
around the black- eyed pease
"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense. Pass the biscuits,
please
G
There's five more acres in the lower
forty I've got to plow."
D
And Mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe,
anyhow
G
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no
good up on Choctaw Ridge
D
And now Billie Joe MacAllister's
C
jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
D
Verse 3
And brother said he recollected
C
D
C
when he and Tom and Billie Joe
D
He put a frog down my back at the
Carroll County picture show
G
And wasn't I talkin' to him after
church last Sunday night?
D
"I'll have another piece of apple pie. You know,
C
D
it don't seem right
G
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday
on Choctaw Ridge
D
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped
C
off the Tallahatchie Bridge."
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
D
Mama said to me, "Child,
C
D
what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning and you
C
D
haven't touched a single bite
G
That nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor, dropped by today
D
C
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday. Oh,
G
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot
D
G
like you up on Choctaw Ridge
D
And she and Billie Joe
was throwing
C
somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge."
Verse 5
D
A year has come 'n' gone since
we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
A
C
D
A
And brother married Becky Thompson,
D
they bought a store in Tupelo
G
There was a virus going 'round,
Papa caught it and he died last Spring
D
And now Mama doesn't seem
to wanna do much of anything
G
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin'
flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
D
And drop them into the muddy water
C
off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Outro 1
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